"I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid."

"Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed."

"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

"In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished."

"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."

"I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters."

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."